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Long, Kim Martin. "The American Eve: Gender, Tragedy, and the American Dream in Five Major Novels," Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, March 1993. Advisor: James T.F. Tanner (9, 2)
America has adopted for its mythology of the American dream the Eden myth, thus making it a masculine endeavor: a garden without Eve, or at least without Eve’s sin, traditionally associated with sexuality. Five of our greatest canonical novels have reflected these attitudes of devaluing or negating feminine power: The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Sound and the Fury. In each of these works, however, the American dream fails because Eve refuses to be the Other, the scapegoat, or the muse to man’s dreams, accounting for the decidedly tragic tone of these Great American Novels.
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